Map-hanger.



. No. 806,426. I PATENTED DEC. 5, 1905.

I 7' J In I MAB HANGER.

LIOATIOR I'ILED KAY 9, 1904.

I Witnesses:-

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.-

Specification of Letters I'atent.

Patented Dec. 5, 1905.

Application filed May 9 1904. Serial No. 207,003-

To all whom it may concern; is Be it known that I, JOHN J. OLEARY,a citizen of the United States, residing at Sisson,

unhooking in the county of Siskiyou and State of California, have invented new and useful Imrovements inMap-Hangers, of which the fol- 1 owing is a specification. My lnventlon relates to means for mounting and reversing maps, charts, plats, advertising-curtains, and the like. Its object is to prov de a simple means of mounting and hanging a map or the like whereby either side of the map-sheet may be Viewed without or otherwise taking the map from its support. I

The invention consists of the parts and the construction and combination of parts, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed, having reference to the accompanying drawin s, in which igure 1 illustrates my improved hanger I with a map in position thereon. Fig. 2 illustrates the hanger with the map removed. Fig. 3 is a view of one of the cross-pieces 2 and one of the rods 3 detached therefrom.

A represents two parallel rods or rollers of any desired length, strength, and material, suitably journaled in or secured at their ends to the cross-pieces 2. Where the ma to be supported is small or where it is desired to suspend the map from the wall-molding or it is not desired to attach the brackets to the wall, I may employ flexible connections, as the chains4, Fig. 2, suitably supported from a point above and connected to rods3, having inturned journals 3 at the lower ends swiveled in sockets in the cross-pieces 2. I

In practice a map, as 5, printed on both sides, with the bottom of the drawing on one side, adjacent to the top of the drawing on the other side, is passed between the rollers and is fastened at top and bottom to a bar 6 to prevent the complete withdrawal again of the map from between the rollers.

The map is ordinarily supported on the rollers by one or the other of the bars 6, and being freely movable in the slot between the rollers and the latter having an oscillating" movement on the journals 3, either side ofthe map may be brought to the front by engalging the top bar andv pulling it over the ro er, which brings the bar which was previously at the bottom to the top and the roller which was reviously to the rear to the front.

A suitab e screw-eye 7 or equivalent mayv be secured to the side toward the operator of each bar 6 when the bar is at the top. The

- screw-eye is for the engagement of a suitable hook, whereby the bar maybe pulled down and the ma reversed.

Having t us described my invention,what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is An improved map-hanger having in combination two parallel spaced rods or rollers, transversely-extending end pieces in which the rods or rollers are journaled, said end pieces having sockets intermediate of their ends, flexible suspendin devices and rods connected theretoand aving their lower ends provided with "ournal-pins adapted to engage the sockets of the end pieces whereby said end pieces and the rollers are substantially balanced, a map or other descriptive sheet having bars at opposite ends and having a limited reciprocating movement between said rods or rollers, and adapted to carry graphic representations on its obverse and reverse sides, therepresentation'on one side being upside down in relation to that on the other side.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

. JOHN J OLEARY. Witnesses:

' J. A. MCCOY,

. GEO. T. KEYsnR. 

